Bag



March 27, 1956 A. F. oTTlNGr-:R

BAG

Filed Oct. 2, 1952 l BAG August n. oranger, Strona, Mo., assigner toBemis uw.

Bagompany, St. Louis, Mo., a corporation 'of Missouri e This inventionrelates to bags, and more particularly to a combination closure andhandle construction for bags.

The principal feature of the invention is the provision of a bag with acombination closure and handle construction which is inexpensive tomanufacture and by means of which a filled bag may be conveniently andcomfortably carried. The invention is particularly applicable to windowbags made of paper, such as are widely used for packaging produce forsale in grocery stores, though not limited to such use. Other featureswill be in part apparent and in part pointed out hereinafter.

The invention accordingly comprises the elements and combinations ofelements, features of construction, and arrangements of parts which willbe exemplied in the structures hereinafter described, and the scope ofwhich will be indicated in the following claims.

ln the accompanying drawings, in which one of various possibleembodiments of the invention is illustrated,

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of a window bag especially made for carryingout my invention, prior to lling and closing of the bag;

Fig. 2 is a perspective of the bag shown in Fig. 1 opened for filling;

Fig. 3 is a perspective of the filled bag provided with my newcombination closure and handle construction; and

Fig. 4 is an enlarged cross section taken on line 4-4 of Fig. 3.

Similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout theseveral views of the drawings.

Referring to the drawings, Figs. l and 2 illustrate a window bag 1 madeof paper and having a window 3 of open-mesh material in its front wall5. The back wall of the bag is designated 7. The bag has gusset sides 9and a square bottom 11. Bags of this general nature are well known, andfull details of their manufacture will be readily understood by thoseconversant with the art. It will suice to say that these bags aregenerally made of two-ply construction (see Fig. 4) and that the window3 consists of a patch of open-mesh material adhesively secured inposition between the plies occupying a window opening formed byregistering apertures in the plies of the front wall 5. The bag of thisinvention differs from prior window bags of this class in that each ofthe front and back walls and 7 has a notch 13'at the top. When the frontand back walls are brought together at the top, the notches registerwith one another and provide a finger opening, as will be made clear.

Fig. 2 illustrates the bag 1 as opened for filling, and Fig. 3illustrates the filled bag (lled with potatoes, for example) providedwith a combination closure and handle construction according to thisinvention. As will be seen from Figs. 3 and 4, the filled bag is closedby a closure generally designated which extends across the top of thebag traversing the linger opening provided by the notches 13 in thefront and back walls 5 and 7 and securing the front and back wallstogether on opposite ited States Patent 2,739,755 Patented Mar. 2'?,i956 fic Sides of the nger opening. The closure is so spaced from thebottom 17 of the finger opening yand the width of the finger opening issuch that fingers of the hand (three fingers, for example) may beinserted into the opening beneath the central portion of the closure toutilize this portion of the closure as a handle for carrying the bag.

More particularly, the closure comprises a relatively thick textile cord19 extending across either the front or the back of the bag (the frontas herein shown) adjacent the top of the bag to traverse the fingeropening at the requisite distance from the bottom 1'7 of the opening.The cord is secured to the bag at opposite sides of the finger openingby stitching 21, the stitching also securing the front and back walls ofthe bag together on opposite sides of the opening. A chain stitch or anyother suitable stitch may be used. In stitching the closure, the needlestrand is driven through the cord and tied down by the looper strand onthe side of the bag opposite the cord. The stitching is continuousthroughout the length of the cord. The finger opening is made sulcientlydeep that the cord and stitching may be located for enough from themouth edge of the bag to resist pulling out the stitches when the filledbag is carried by the handle. ln any event, in the case of the two-plygusseted bag herein illustrated, the stitches for the most part extendthrough eight layers of paper (two in the front wall, four in thegussets, and two in the back wall) so that a relatively heavy load maybe carried without any danger of stitches pulling out.

The width of the finger opening in the filled bag is less than thedistance between the inner folds 23 of the gussets. The mouth of the bagis completely closed by the closure 15 so far as relatively large itemsof produce are concerned, noting that the closure secures the front andback walls of the bag together on opposite sides of the linger opening,and that the central handle portion of the closure serves to preventrelatively large items of produce (potatoes, for example) from fallingout through the finger opening. It will be seen that the portion of thecord which traverses the finger opening constitutes a handle memberthick enough not to cut into the fingers when carrying a loaded bag, andenables the bag to be carried conveniently and comfortably. This handlemember is firmly secured to the bag by the stitching securing the frontand back walls together on opposite sides of the opening.

In view of the above, it will be seen that the several objects of theinvention are achieved and other advantageous results attained.

As many changes could be made in the above constructions withoutdeparting from the scope of the invent tion, it is intended that allmatter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanyingdrawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limitingsense.

l claim:

1. A bag having front and back walls, side gnssets, and a bottomclosure, and further having a finger opening at the top formed byregistering recesses in the upper portions of the front and back Walls,said recesses being open-ended at the upper edges of said Walls, thewidth of the finger opening being less than the distance between theinner folds of the gussets and the finger opening being located betweensaid inner folds, a handle member extending across the bag on one facethereof adjacent its upper edge and above the lower edge of the fingeropening, said handle member having a portion traversing the fingeropening, stitching driven through the handle member securing togetherthe portions of the front and back walls on opposite side of the fingeropening together with the gussets, said handle member being so spacedfrom the bottom of the opening and the width of the opening being dlemember as a handle for carrying the bag.

2. A bag having front and back walls, side gussets, and a bottomclosure, and further having a linger opening at the top formed byregistering recesses in the upper por-v tions of the front and backwalls, said recesses being open-ended at the upper edges of ysaid walls,the width of the linger opening being less than the distance between theinner folds of the gussets and the linger opening being located betweensaid inner folds, a textile cord extending completely across the bag onone face thereof adjacent its upper edge and above the lower edge of thefinger opening and having a portion traversing `the finger opening, aline of stitching driven through the cord continuously throughout thelength of the cord and securing to gether the portions of the front andback Walls on Opposite sides of the linger opening together with theygussets, said cord being so spaced from the bottom of the opening andthe widthof the opening `being such that lingers of the handmay beinserted into the opening beneath the portion of the cord traversing theopening to utilize said portion of the cord as a handle for carrying thebag.

References Ctedill-ll .file of this patent UNITED PATENTS 2,482,848Grant Sept. 27, 1949

